Hi, yep, in the end macros are exactly what your were looking for. They are designed to let people create quick ways to access features they use a lot (a nice css display for a floating box for instance). They leverage XWiki's scripting ability and make them available to end-users to perform simple tasks easily. I thought about it but your own reply was faster than mine ;-)
BTW, I'd be interested to know how you found about XWiki and what are your impressions about it (besides its user guide... :-) Thanks for your feedback, Guillaume On 19/11/2007, William Lesguillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding the user guide, I'd split the feature presentation part > (aimed to be a commercial content) and the real user guide. It > confuses a bit (both users and prospectors) and doesn´t give the user > a presentation of the features and how to use them in a step by step > manner. Macros for instance are not present in the feature list while > they're really nice to use. While internationalization is while it's > not something you'd see in a user guide. > > Studying macros a bit more I realize they are that simple scripting > language I was looking for. Some code snippets should be turned into > macros like Child Page Snippet, Backlinks Snippet (or others) so > advanced user can use them without fear, and without cluttering their > wiki pages with real code. > > Macros could be part of the user guide or the "Advanced user" guide. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- http://wikibc.blogspot.com/
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